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After two homes in the process of being elevated collapsed, a New Jersey lawmaker has proposed legislation setting standards to ensure th ...

Many people still think of Philadelphia as corrupt and contented, and, sure, it re-earns that reputation from time to time. But it ...

Poet David Livewell spent his childhood in Lower Kensington. He’s the 2012 winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry for “Sha ...

This morning, police and firefighters led a memorial in Old City to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, honoring the first responde ...

The school district of Philadelphia has the city’s promise of an additional $50 million to help the struggling schools. Even ...

I am not the woman dressed in pink. I am not a woman who sees herself as a survivor. I never doubted the cure. So I held on by my fi ...

Alexis Norton sat at a table with several friends this week, swapping stories about rebuilding her Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey, home af ...

It’s been more than two years since the Philadelphia Housing Authority first announced its plans to demolish Queen Lane Apartments ...

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Community activists who were formerly convicted of crimes urged North Philadelphia teenagers to stay out of trouble and support anti-gun ...

Philadelphia City Council is moving forward with its plan to sell off vacant school district properties to come up with cash for the dist ...

Philadelphia’s cash-starved schools have little money for paper, pens and other supplies. The mayor has set up a new fund th ...

Life and Times. The folks at the Nature Theater of Oklahoma asked a woman they knew to tell them her life’s story ...

As expected, Kent County Levy Court awarded its dog control contract to the Kent County SPCA, after its agreement with Safe Haven Animal ...

A school bus carrying seniors with disabilities collided with six other cars this morning along a busy South Jersey roadway. At least eig ...